Comparisons / Tendro vs Blinq
Event lead capture · Head-to-head
Tendro vs Blinq
Tendro is event lead capture priced per show: $499 covers every rep, HubSpot and Salesforce sync included, no contract. Blinq is a digital business card app; lead capture bills per card seat plus $9.99 a lead. Both read the printed badge, so the Blinq vs Tendro call turns on the unit: a flat $499 a show, or seats plus $9.99 a lead.
Free desk trial, no card. Your first event switches on live CRM sync.
At a glance Checked 11 Oct 2026
| At a glance | Tendro | Blinq |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $499 per event, flat | $9.99 per lead + seats |
| Team members | Unlimited reps | A seat per rep, 5 minimum |
| CRM sync | HubSpot and Salesforce, included | HubSpot and Salesforce, Business plan |
| Contract | None, pay per show | Monthly or annual seats |
| 100 leads, one show | $499 | $1,033.95 on monthly seats |
§ 01 · The pick
Tendro vs Blinq: which should you pick?
Pick Tendro for one flat $499 a show, whatever the booth scans. Pick Blinq if your team already runs Blinq cards and sees a few dozen leads a show.
Pick Tendro if
- You want one flat price a show. $499 covers every rep and every scan; there is no per-lead meter to forecast.
- Your booth is busy. On Blinq's monthly seats, five seats plus 47 leads at one show come to $504.48.
- You add reps for a show. A sixth phone on the booth adds nothing to the bill; Blinq bills a card seat for each rep.
Pick Blinq if
- Your team already runs Blinq cards. The card is the core of the app, and every lead is attributed to the card that captured it.
- Your booth sees a few dozen leads. At 25 leads a show, eight shows on annual seats come to $2,297.40, under Tendro's $3,992.
- Your CRM is Marketo or Zoho. Blinq lists each as a native, field-mapped connection on Business; Tendro connects them on request.
The unit decides it. Tendro bills the show: $499 at checkout on the pricing page, every rep and scan included. Blinq bills the seat and the lead, so a busy show can pass $499 on its own.
On monthly seats (5 × $6.99), the 47th lead takes one show to $504.48. Counting one month of annual seats (5 × $4.99), the 48th does, at $504.47.
§ 02 · Side by side
How do Tendro and Blinq compare side by side?
Tendro is $499 per show for the whole team, sync included. Blinq is a card seat per rep, five minimum, plus $9.99 a lead; CRM sync needs Business.
Tendro vs Blinq, line by line
| Feature | Tendro | Blinq |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Tendro $499 per event Unlimited team members, phones and scans; volume rates from 10 events a year. | Blinq $9.99 per lead + seats Business seats at $6.99 a card a month, or $4.99 billed annually; "$9.99 per lead captured and enriched". |
| Team members | Tendro Unlimited reps and scans One price for the whole booth. | Blinq A card seat per rep, 5 minimum "At least one live workspace card for every person capturing leads"; a minimum charge equal to 5 cards. |
| Contract | Tendro None Pay per show. | Blinq Monthly or annual seats Cancel any time; it takes effect at the end of the membership term. |
| How you buy | Tendro Checkout today, no contract Free desk trial first, no card. | Blinq Self-serve, 30-day Business trial A payment method upfront, charged when the trial ends; trial leads use no credits. 4+ events a year: "Event packages" at "Custom pricing", via a demo. |
| Scanning | Tendro Any printed badge or business card OCR of the printed face, then enrichment; open QR codes parse; works offline. | Blinq Badges, paper cards and QR codes "If you can take a picture of it, Blinq can read it"; badge API data where the organizer grants access; works offline. |
| CRM sync | Tendro HubSpot and Salesforce, native Included in every event; matched on email, and any question can write to a HubSpot property or Salesforce field. Marketo, Pardot, Pipedrive, Zoho and any CRM with a public API on request. | Blinq HubSpot and Salesforce, Business plan Seven native, field-mapped CRMs; matched on email, owner matched to the Blinq owner; they "aren't available on Free or Premium plans". |
| After the scan | Tendro Your questions, a voice note, a recap The rep answers your qualifying questions, adds a voice note, and sends a recap with their digital card now, in ten minutes, or never. | Blinq Tags, qualifiers, an AI Notetaker summary Admins preset questions and tags per campaign; the rep can text or email the summary link; follow-up runs from the CRM. |
| Digital card | Tendro Free for every rep QR code, booking link, and share-backs that land as leads. | Blinq The core of the app Free for individuals; team cards are the Business seats; NFC cards sold separately, custom from $59.99. |
| Good to know | Tendro From the team behind Socio The event platform Cisco acquired as Webex Events. | Blinq Digital cards first Its homepage: "4 million people in 500K companies use Blinq"; event lead capture is its newer line, billed per lead. |
On Blinq, the seat decides what syncs. "Leads are attributed by the card they're captured on"; one captured on a personal card "won't reach your campaign or your CRM." On Tendro every rep on the event scans under the one price, and every scan with a valid email lands on the CRM record.
Which badge codes carry contact details and which hold an organizer ID: does Tendro read badge QR codes?
§ 03 · The season
What does each cost for a 5-rep team at 8 shows?
Tendro: 8 × $499 = $3,992, every rep and lead included. Blinq at list price: $299.40 in annual seats plus $9.99 a lead, $8,291.40 at 100 leads a show.
Season total, 8 shows and 5 reps
| Leads a show | Blinq | Tendro |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $2,297.40 | $3,992 at any traffic |
| 47 | $4,055.64 | |
| 50 | $4,295.40 | |
| 100 | $8,291.40 | |
| 200 | $16,283.40 |
Blinq: five annual seats ($299.40), every lead one full $9.99 credit, no duplicates, after the trial, no negotiated package. Tendro: 8 × $499, every rep included; from 10 shows a year the per-event rate drops, on the pricing page.
Packages change the meter. Blinq's event page lists "Event packages" with "Discounted lead pricing" for "4+ events a year", at "Custom pricing". Its help center: bulk credit and unlimited lead packages "are available by contacting our sales team".
Where Blinq comes in under $3,992. At 46 leads a show its season is $3,975.72; at 47 it is $4,055.64. A lead where Blinq adds no email or phone uses 0.75 credits ($7.49), and a duplicate uses none.
Per-lead, per-event and quoted plans side by side: the pricing models breakdown.
§ 04 · Your CRM
What lands in HubSpot or Salesforce from each?
Tendro: a HubSpot Contact or Salesforce Lead matched on email, with answers and the voice note. Blinq: a field-mapped Contact or Lead on Business.
Tendro, for one scan
Jordan Ellis Director of Operations · Northwind Industrial Supply
- jordan.ellis@northwind-industrial.com
- Contact owner
- Dana Ruiz
- Project
- New warehouse
Note On the Contact
Tendro Lead Capture — Metalworks Expo
Project: New warehouse
Go-live: Q1 2027
Notes: Wants pricing on two palletizing cells for the Joliet warehouse. Budget's approved. Send the spec sheet after the show.
Tag: hot
Captured by: dana@arcline-robotics.com
Assigned to: dana@arcline-robotics.com
Blinq, per its docs and help center
- HubSpot: a Contact, matched on email. Contact Owner "matched from Blinq contact owner"; interactions push as Meeting objects titled "Interaction from Blinq".
- Salesforce: a Lead or a Contact. Admins choose, "Contacts by default"; matched on email; owner "Matched to Blinq owner"; AI Notetaker summaries sync.
- Campaigns link to CRM objects. "Link a campaign to a HubSpot list, Salesforce campaign, Dynamics campaign or Marketo program and every lead is attributed in your CRM automatically."
- Business plan and up. CRM integrations "aren't available on Free or Premium plans"; each new lead syncs automatically or waits for manual review.
Test both the same way: scan a contact that already exists in your CRM and watch whether the record merges or forks. Before you pay, a 15-minute demo shows a badge landing in HubSpot or Salesforce with its note.
Now every scan is in the CRM the same day.
Jay · CEO, Udext
Details: HubSpot lead retrieval and Salesforce lead retrieval. Field by field across vendors, Blinq included: the CRM sync comparison.
§ 05 · Switching
Can you switch from Blinq to Tendro mid-season?
Yes. Tendro has no contract, so your next show can be the first on it. Blinq seats run to term end, monthly or annual, and paid fees stay paid.
- Next show
- Buy it at checkout and every rep scans on their own phone, each with a free digital card. Your first paid event switches on CRM sync.
- Blinq's term
- Cancel any time; it "will only take effect at the expiry of your Membership term", monthly or annual; paid fees stay paid. Lead credits bill monthly in arrears, so one more invoice follows.
- Your data
- An admin exports a campaign's contacts as a CSV, or straight into a connected CRM, Zapier or Outlook. Export each campaign before the term ends; what already synced to your CRM stays there.
Checkout for the next show is on the pricing page; the desk trial needs no card.
Also compared
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- Tendro vs iCapture Pick Tendro for $499 a show, no contract. Pick iCapture for badge-provider registration data at shows that grant it, on a Cvent annual plan.
- Tendro vs Wave Connect Pick Tendro for a flat $499 per show with unlimited scans for the whole team. Pick Wave Connect if a show brings under 50 badges at its $10 list rate.
- Tendro vs Mobly Pick Tendro for $499 a show, no contract, booth recap included. Pick Mobly if you exhibit year-round on an annual agreement and want Pulse sequences.
- Tendro vs Vendelux Pick Tendro for questions on each lead, a matched rep as owner, Salesforce sync. Pick Vendelux if free HubSpot scans with tags and notes are enough.
All six on one page: every Tendro comparison. For the wider field, ranked by booth fit: event lead capture alternatives.
Sources
Sources Checked 11 Oct 2026
- Blinq pricing page Seats at $6.99 monthly or $4.99 annual per card, five minimum; "$9.99 per lead captured and enriched"; 30-day trial; free individual cards
- Blinq homepage "4 million people in 500K companies use Blinq"; the digital business card positioning
- Blinq: event lead capture page "Event packages" for "4+ events a year" at "Custom pricing"; pay as you go for 1-3; duplicates free; badge reading; offline
- Blinq: lead capture pricing $9.99 credits, billed monthly in arrears; 0.75 when Blinq adds no email or phone; trial leads free; packages via sales; campaigns linked to a HubSpot list, Salesforce campaign, Dynamics campaign or Marketo program
- Blinq: how credits work The credit rate table: 1, 0.75, and 0 for a duplicate
- Blinq: Business billing "A minimum charge equal to 5 cards"; billing per card
- Blinq: how trials work 30-day Business trial, payment method upfront, charged when it ends
- Blinq: event lead capture setup guide A live workspace card per person capturing leads; leads attributed by card; badge API via the account manager
- Blinq: connecting your CRM Seven native, field-mapped CRMs; not on Free or Premium; automatic or manual review
- Blinq docs: HubSpot field reference Contact Owner matched from the Blinq owner; Meeting objects titled "Interaction from Blinq"; email as the unique identifier
- Blinq docs: Salesforce Leads or Contacts, Contacts by default; owner matched to the Blinq owner; de-duplication on email; AI Notetaker summaries
- Blinq: AI Notetaker basics The summary link the rep can send by text or email
- Blinq: export a campaign's contacts CSV, or into a connected CRM, Zapier or Outlook; Business or Enterprise; admin access
- Blinq terms and conditions Cancellation takes effect at the expiry of the Membership term; fees non-refundable once paid
- Blinq NFC business cards Custom NFC cards from $59.99
- Tendro pricing $499 per event, unlimited team members, volume rates, the desk trial
- Tendro HubSpot and Salesforce sync What lands on the Contact or the Lead, matched on email, mapped fields
Last call
Try it on your next show.
$499 per event. Every rep on the booth team.